The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons – to make good design, not become stars.

The thing is, it’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs’s mantra: ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,’ Jony said.

When you are a designer, you have to be able to convey your ideas to people who are not designers; perhaps they are financing you or going to do the production, and you have to be able to turn them on to the product and its feasibility.

Someone started taking notes, Steve said, ‘You don’t need to takes notes. If it’s important, you’ll remember it’.

In New York, researchers have created a working prototype of an amazing touch-screen interface for a computer that, unlike most touch screens, supports multiple touch points -- or multiple people. Running on OS X, the interface is reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's fictional, gesture-based UI in Minority Report -- but much cooler.

It's huge news for the Mac community. It's a real bombshell. Hell has frozen over, black is white, two plus two equals five, the whole fabric of the universe has been ripped open.

The same is true of Windows and other platformsthere are dozens of potential ways in, according to the SANS Institute, but a vulnerability does not an exploit make. These Mac security holes are a storm in a teacup. They've inspired hundreds of stories in the press and even the national network news, but if they were Windows holes, no one would have blinked.